The Somerset reporter., 1887-05-18
LOCAL ITEMS.

Cen Isaac Dyer made trip 10 Bangor
Monday.
Good organ for sale OF 10 rent, inquire
of Dr. Cushing
+. $. Cairns is on business trip tc
Portland, this week
H. NJ. Jones sold a promising coli to j
C.. Horne of Oakland for $500.
Stamford oysters are the best opened
from the shell at S. Whittier's.
Sophie May has returned to her home
in Norridgewock for the summer.
Mrs. Vim. Lullam, of Montreal, is in
town on u visit to her parents Mr.. &
Mrs. Josiah Fields.
The rush still continues at Curt,
which is due to the low prices he is Civ
ing his customers.
The wooden mill employees enjoyed the
first Saturday afternoon holiday OF
the summer last week.
Everyone says Ordway has the be t
line of sunshades in town and at the low
est prices.
Oren A. Priest, Of this town, has been
nominated by Governor Bodwcl for Trial
Justice of Somerset County.
r. II. Mari /, Esq, of Harmony, was in
town Monday. also Mr.. \. p. Bailey of
the Elm House, Harmony.
Rev. L. \ Poste is expected TO occupy
his pulpit next Sabbath, after an absence
of some weeks in New York State.
Messrs. Cotton and Carter, of the law
firm Frye, Cotton 4 White, were here
Saturday last, on professional business.
Bertrand G. March, is the name of the
operator at the Telegraph Office, not
Marsh as the REPORTER gave it last week
We issue to-day from the REPORTER job
Office for S. W. Gould Esq, neat lttl
pamphlet relating to the Percheron or
Norman race of horses.
Wanted--a liberal supply of rain, to
arrive in moderate quantities, the first in
stallment at once. Unless it arrives soon
vegetation is sure to suffer.
Mrs Harriet &. Sawyer of Somervillc,
Mass, arrived on Wednesday evening
last, to pass the summer months Nth her
daughter, Mrs. a. q. Blunt.
The survey of the Boston X Quebec
Air Line railroad is progressing. A
working survey is now being made be-
tween Scion and bingham.
Z. II. S. Vaughan, a medical student at
Brunswick passed Il few days of the
past week with his parents i'll town, re-
turning to the college yesterday morning.
Somerset CongreeationaliSt Conference
occurs at bingham, June 18th and Sth,
and the Somerset District Lodge of Good
Templars meets at the same place June
Sd.
Logs are now running lively on the
Kcnnebcc. The prospect is good for IA
clean drive this year. This means good
business at the mills and u good cut next
winter.
Mrs. Morrill,, widow of the late Lot NJ.
morrill,, of Augusta, was in town over
tie Sabbath, on visit to her sister, Mrs.
Ilaines, whose health of late has become
considerably impaired.
We are requested to announce in the
I a.. Il. Of Dun,sll HINT
of Lowell, Mass, formerly of Athens,
who died on the 9Th inst, of heart dis
ease, aged &C years. Bangor papers are
requested to copy.
DIR. S. +. Conant is on a three weeks
tour through Massachusetts and Connect
lieut., in the interest of his "Anidrosis.'
The success he is meeting with is no sur
prise to those conversant with the me
thods of his treatment.
The vacation season has arrived and 1t
will be the REPORTERS aim to keep It's
readers posted on the arrival and depart
ure of vacationists. You can all aid us
in this respect, by furnishing US with the
names of those who come within your OBJ
servation.
At the present time it looks rs if SkoW-
hogan would put a base ball nine into the
field this season, and good one, too
And then should Il State league be form
ed we should see more and better base
ball upon these grounds, than ever be
before
Amasa Weston died at his home in this
village, Friday last aged Gs years He
served in the 4th, Maine Battery,
during the war. His funeral occurred
Sunday afternoon at the Congregations
list Church, the services being conducted
by Rev. A. J. Racklih.
We give this week in the REPORTER
short communications descriptive of two
Somerset pleasure resorts llayden's Lake
in Madison and Garry Ponds in Carry
ing Place plantation. In both places pat
rons will be well used. There is not the
slightest doubt of it.
The Aroostook Herald learns that Jo-
scph Pollard of Massards, fell while
walking on the veranda last week, Sc
riously injuring his back, and has not
since been able to sit up or move about,
Mr. Pollard is so very old it is feared he
will never recover from the fall He was
formerly a resident of Skowhegan.
Mr.. l.. A. Wade, of the large dry-goods
firm A. Little & Co., of Portland, made
the REPORTER call Friday last, on his
way from Athens, where he had been to
attend the obscquies of Mrs. a. C. Wade
Mr.. Wade was for some years resident
of this town associated in business with
the late NJ. d Ward. He retains lively
interest in Skowhegan, and is glad to
note many indications of growth and
prosperity.
The Committee on Village Improve
ment invested the money collected, in
trees, placing row on each side of the
avenue leading from Madison st. to the
cemetery on the North side, also replaced
all on the grounds around the school
houses that had died and i'm other places